Dr. Andrés Anca Couce
Contact information
Current Position: Ramón y Cajal Professor
Phone number: +34 91 624 6263
Office: 1.1.F.38
Email: aanca@ing.uc3m.es
EDUCATION
Degree in Industrial Engineering. Specialty: Mechanical Engineering. Special award for the best record in the degree. Universidade de Vigo. 2008.
PhD in Engineering. Doctorate “summa cum laude” (with distinction). Technische Universität Berlin. 2012.
PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE
2016 – 2022. Technische Universität Graz – Institute of Thermal Engineering (Austria). Group leader and lecturer.
- Co-founder and leader of “Sustainable, clean and bioenergy systems” group.
- Habilitation in “Thermo-Chemical Bioenergy Systems” (Priv.-Doz., equivalent to Assoc. Prof.) in 2020.
2015 – 2016. Bioenergy 2020+ GmbH (currently BEST Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies) (Graz, Austria). Senior researcher.
2013 – 2015. Technische Universität Graz – Institute of Process and Particle Engineering (Austria). Posdoctoral researcher.
2008 – 2012. Technische Universität Berlin – Department of Energy Engineering (Germany). PhD student.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Energetic biomass utilization; Development of sustainable, clean and bioenergy systems.
- Thermo-chemical conversion processes of biomass: pyrolysis, gasification, torrefaction, combustion.
- Multi-scale description of thermo-chemical processes, including the molecular, particle and reactor level. Detailed reaction schemes of biomass pyrolysis.
- Characterization of the products and applications of thermo-chemical conversion processes of biomass: tar, gases, char and ashes.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Heat transfer. Bioenergy.
PUBLICATIONS